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{{also|gut-bread|gut bread}}
==English==
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[[File:Sweetbreads close up.jpg|thumb|A cooked [[veal]] [[sweetbread]]]]

===Etymology===
From {{compound|en|gut|bread}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈɡʌtbɹɛd/|a=RP,GA}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gutbread.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{hyphenation|en|gut|bread}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# The [[pancreas]], especially the pancreas of [[livestock]] used as food.
#* {{quote-journal|en|journal=w:The Pharmaceutical Journal|location=London|publisher=J. Churchill|year=1909|volume=29|page=819|issn=0031-6873|oclc=701741133|passage=Having spent many years in the slaughterhouse, I can perhaps enlighten your correspondent as to what sweetbreads are. The "throat-bread" is undoubtedly the thyroid, and the "'''gut-bread'''" the pancreas. {{...}} But I was informed that the '''gut-bread''', ''i.e.'', the sweetbread of dictionaries and doctors, is "given to paupers or thrown away."}}
#* '''1928''', Thomas Barlow Wood; Leslie Frank Newman, ''Beef Production in Great Britain'', Liverpool: R. Silcock & Sons, <small>{{w|OCLC}} [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/504869788 504869788]</small>, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QKAvAAAAYAAJ&q=%22the+gut+bread%22&dq=%22the+gut+bread%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitk8uxnoXLAhUDmR4KHdWNAwwQ6AEILjAD page 27]:
#*: (3) The throat bread (thyroid gland)
#*: (4) The heart bread (thymus gland) <math>\Biggr\}</math> These form a "set" of sweetbreads.
#*: (5) The '''gut bread''' (pancreas)
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Joan O[live] Joshua|chapter=Pancreas, Liver, Spleen, Peritoneal Cavity|title=The Clinical Aspects of Some Diseases of Cats|location=London|publisher=[[w:Heinemann (publisher)|William Heinemann Medical Books]]|year=1965|page=84|oclc=752738250|passage=The feeding of raw pancreas has been advocated and claimed to be effective but the difficulty of ensuring a regular supply of fresh '''gutbreads''', quite apart from doubts as to the effect of gastric digestion, makes this treatment of dubious value.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|journal=Araneta Journal of Agriculture|location=Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines|publisher=[[w:De La Salle Araneta University|Araneta Institute of Agriculture]]|year=1967|volume=14–15|page=181|oclc=637414566|passage=Gerrard discloses that the pancreas is sometimes substituted for sweetbread and is referred to as '''gutbread''' in English slaughter houses.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=H[erbert] W. Ockerman; L. Basu|chapter=By-products|editors=Werner K. Jensen; Carrick Devine; Michael Dikeman|title=Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences|location=Oxford|publisher=[[w:Elsevier|Elsevier Academic Press]]|year=2004|volume=I (A–F)|isbn=978-0-12-464970-5|passage=The brownish-yellow lobulated pancreas is called ‘'''gut bread'''’ or ‘stomach sweetbread’ and weighs approximately 170 g in market-weight beef animals and 85 g in sheep and pigs.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|tlr=Marina Bänke|editors=A[leksei Vladimirovich] Yablokov; R. Braun; U[te] Watermann|title=Chernobyl 20 Years After: Myth and Truth|edition=2nd|location=Münster|publisher=Agenda Verlag|year=2006|page=72|isbn=978-3-89688-278-3|passage=The summarized data from various states show that in the most contaminated regions the incidence rate of '''gut-bread''' cancer rose ten times during 1991–1994 if compared with the period of 1986–1990 (Radiation level..., 2000, par. 258, p. 52).}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Martin Edwards|title=Control and the Therapeutic Trial: Rhetoric and Experimentation in Britain, 1918–48|series=The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine; Clio Medica|seriesvolume=82|location=Amsterdam; New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Rodopi (publisher)|Editions Rodopi]]|year=2007|page=45|isbn=978-90-420-2273-7|passage=A case report from Ernest Neve, senior surgeon at the Kashmir Mission Hospital, provided the final item of support for raw gland therapy. {{...}} Cunningham Affleck, an Edinburgh physician, shared Neve's frustration with the idiosyncrasies of butchers and slaughterhouse workers. He discovered that they generally supplied thymus or thyroid glands in place of pancreas when asked for ‘sweetbreads’. It was necessary, he cautioned, to specify ‘long bread’ or ‘'''gut bread'''’ in order to receive pancreas. Those who had found pancreas unpleasant had probably been supplied with the wrong organ, for true pancreas was ‘quite pleasant and palatable’.}}

====Alternative forms====
* {{l|en|gut-bread}}, {{l|en|gut bread}}

====Synonyms====
* {{l|en|pancreas}}
* {{l|en|sweetbread}} {{qualifier|one sense}}
** {{l|en|belly sweetbread}}
** {{l|en|heart sweetbread}}
** {{l|en|stomach sweetbread}}

{{C|en|Meats}}